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Reimagining global banking services in the connected digital marketplace

09 Nov 17 @ 16:06

Regulation, compliance and legacy systems have, for so long, been the stumbling blocks for financial institutions to capitalise on the new digital age where there are few barriers to international... read more

Apple Pay Cash launches P2P platform in Beta

08 Nov 17 @ 16:22

Apple rolled out Apple Pay Cash for those in its public beta program the service will act like virtual debit card, allowing P2P payments, to take on Venmo. Apple Pay Cash will... read more

Mobile payments soar 300% as part of the contactless revolution

08 Nov 17 @ 16:11

As the recently launched iPhone X makes mobile payments even easier with Face ID, MoneySuperMarket reveals that a quarter (23%) of Generation Z predicts physical cards will soon be obsolete as mobile... read more

CORVID PayGate technology gains accreditation to deliver Faster Payments

08 Nov 17 @ 09:22

Ultra Electronics’ CORVID PayGate platform has been accredited by the Faster Payments Scheme Limited (FPSL) as technically compatible with the Faster Payments Central Infrastructure (FPS CI). This assures CORVID’s ability... read more

Facebook Messenger launches P2P payments in the UK

07 Nov 17 @ 14:02

Facebook Messenger is enabling people in the UK to send money to each other via P2P payments in its Messenger texting app for the first time. The social network said Monday... read more

American Express supports next generation of digital commerce With SafeKey 2.0

07 Nov 17 @ 13:26

American Express has announced SafeKey 2.0, the next generation of its online authentication tool built specifically to meet the needs of today’s increasingly digital commerce environment. SafeKey 2.0, which leverages... read more

The Mobile Payments and Fraud Survey 2017

03 Nov 17 @ 15:27

The Mobile Payments and Fraud Survey: 2017 Report is the fifth edition of this annual study which seeks to understand and measure the state of mobile payments and mobile channel... read more

UK e-commerce market set for strong growth powered by Wallets

03 Nov 17 @ 11:44

The UK will be the world’s third biggest market for e-commerce in 2021, growing by an average of almost 10% over the next five years according to new data. In... read more

Orange launches its own mobile bank – Orange Bank

02 Nov 17 @ 17:08

Orange has launched its own mobile bank, Orange Bank, aiming to win 25% of France’s online banking market by capitalizing on the rising use of smartphones to steal share from established... read more

Australian Banks partner for mobile P2P payments JV – Beem

02 Nov 17 @ 16:59

Three of Australia’s largest banks, The Commonwealth Bank(CBA), National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac have partnered to create a new mobile P2P payments platform, named Beem. In the wake of their battle with... read more

Visa launch real-time payments platform Visa Direct in Europe

02 Nov 17 @ 16:34

Visa has announced the European launch of Visa Direct – a real-time payments platform that allows companies to leverage Visa’s global reach and scale to transform domestic and cross-border payments... read more

Unlocking the next-generation of powered payment cards

01 Nov 17 @ 13:39

Powered payment cards become powered when they take on interactive form factors such as biometric sensors and Dynamic Code Verification (DCV). In total, 213 million powered payment cards are forecasted to... read more

Google Tez hits over 7.5m users in 5 weeks

01 Nov 17 @ 10:38

Google has made several announcements around Google Tez, the payments app that the search giant had launched in India last month. Based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the NPCI’s payments platform for the... read more

Real time payments: Towards speed and transparency

01 Nov 17 @ 09:18

While payments might seem ‘instant’ to those engaged in the transaction, the reality is, apart from cash, they are generally not. Real time clearing is what happens when you hand... read more

Bitcoin thieves are back – CryptoShuffler Trojan hunt for users’ cryptosavings

31 Oct 17 @ 14:50

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware, CryptoShuffler Trojan, which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard. Criminals are targeting... read more

The World’s most cashless countries – Infographic

31 Oct 17 @ 10:15

A new study has found the countries among the 20 largest economies who are adapting quickest to using cashless systems like phones and contactless cards – revealing that Canada narrowly... read more

Fraud Report 2017

31 Oct 17 @ 09:50

The global e-commerce market continues to grow rapidly, and is predicted to be worth $2.4 trillion by 2019. As a result, the market continues to attract not merely ever-greater levels... read more

Mastercard opens up API access to blockchain platform

30 Oct 17 @ 12:15

Mastercard says that it will open up access to its in house blockchain technology platform via an application programming interface (API) which will be made available to developers at banks... read more

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Visa turns the card into an identity credential

12 May 26 @ 15:44

Visa has launched a new tap-based authentication technology that could reshape how banks verify customers in mobile banking environments. [caption id="atta... more

Santander backs Ebury’s next phase with fresh funding

05 May 26 @ 16:52

Banco Santander has reinforced its commitment to Ebury after taking part in a funding round of about £550mn for the cross-border payments and trade finance fin... more

RBC and BMO weigh sale of Moneris as banks retreat from merchant acquiring

06 May 26 @ 16:43

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are reportedly in talks to sell Moneris, their jointly owned payments processing business, to Francisco Partners, in a... more